RANDOMS....FROM SARAH'S BLOG....I LIKE IT

Was just having a browse on Sarah's blog a wee minute ago and thought this was a fun one to join in with...why not give it a go yourself!!!!

LISTENING TO Take That...can't wait to see them..10 weeks tomorrow(not that I am counting or anything..lol)

EATING nothing at the moment - not had any tea yet and wondering what there is to eat

DRINKING Schweppes Russian Tonic with lime...yumm

WEARING jeans, grey t-shirt, grey boyfriend cardigan with my big thick gray cardigan over the top(just been to pick the girls up from dancing) and a pink scarf

FEELING overwhelmed by life sometimes just now (4 kids does that to you sometimes!)

WEATHER was so so today but is now raining

WANTING a holiday in the sun

NEEDING a holiday in the sun!!!

THINKING this time last year we were in Tenerife!!

ENJOYING my kids being happy doing their football, dancing, etc

WONDERING if Allan REALLY will be home tomorrow(only been home for 12 days in the last 8 weeks!)

READING The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stiegg Larsson and thoroughly enjoying it - can't wait to start the 3rd one in the trilogy

PHOTO THAT MAKES ME SMILE

So there we have it...the last two I added in.....The whole thing made me smile...Thanks Sarah...x

SHE ART WORKSHOP...

Not only have I been a very bad blogger these last few weeks I have also failed miserably with She Art....and only managed one canvas so far despite the fact that I have done six backgrounds...rubbish I know....I am hoping to rectify that this next week or so....

Lots of lovely random stamping and rub-ons...

Adding lace and ribbon for the touchy feely effect...love it!!!

Now has pride of place in the archway into the kitchen....hopefully get caught up soon....

Kirsti xx

THE BUNTING...

Got the photos just before the rain came tipping down...OMG it's bucketing now...hope it doesn't turn to SNOW!!!!

This is some more of my blanks...covered 3 with Cath Kidston notepaper and two are painted red and some lovely antique white dots added....not much else to say really as it speaks for it's self...it's now in the shop...am considering doing personalised bunting...any thoughts greatly appreciated!!!

NEW THINGS IN THE SHOP

Some new things in the shop this week....

These two little owl cards I found in an old copy of the CARDS magazine and I thought it was cute so I did one each way...The patterned paper is a border cut using the Cricut and stretched...

Trying to use up older blanks I have in my storage boxes....these are so wee and dinky...

More using up stash....and some machine stitching...I am definitely getting better at that...

This came from an idea from RedLead(love their style)...I used the Cricut to cut the house shape from a piece of mountboard...not easy as it doesn't cut right through even with the deepcut blade(I think mine is broken tho as it kept going veering of so I changed back to the normal blade and just used a scalpel to cut through...) I had to cheat with the E as I didn't have any left so it's actually an F with the 'dot' (which is a square) from an exclamation mark and taped it on and then covered with patterned paper...There is also some more machine stitching on this one - zig-zag this time...getting braver...lol and the flower is a left over from another project...lots of upcycled pieces in here...

That's it today...Got some bunting that I need to string together and photograph but it's a little windy outside for pics so might not get that done today...I heard there is snow forecast for tomorrow so maybe not then either:0(

NEW CHALLENGE...

So there is a new Mood Board Challenge over at Simply Create.... Here's what Jacqui has to say... So for a long time I haven't had time to play but tonight's the night, I am in the mood for a challenge so I thought maybe you would be too, so you've guessed it another £100 of goodies up for grabs and maybe some little prizes thrown in too....make something using the colours from the inspiration board below and include a flower and a button in your project somewhere. So here's another one of those gorgeous inspiration boards: All I ask is that you leave a comment, become a member of the blog and link to the challenge on your side bar. I will announce the winner on the 30th March so have fun and can't wait to see all of your gorgeous creations. So why not pop over and have a go...you have to be 'in it to win it' as they say....

SHE ART WORKSHOP...

On Monday the She Art Workshop started and I was so excited....I hummed and haaaed about signing up as I am really bad at doing this and then not following through with them but I REALLY liked the look of this one....Christy is doing another one sometime in April so why not check it out....

Anyway we started on Monday with painting up and layering backgrounds on canvases which I am loving and suddenly seem to have got the hang of...

This one is direct to canvas using a stencil and some spray inks and a little paint and some bubble wrap and sequin waist...I also used a roller stamp over it in places...

This one is another direct to canvas using one of the kids ABC stencils and some spray ink...I toned down the green edges by rubbing some antique white paint (which was almost dry) into it and then added a mask and some pink spray ink...and down below another mask with blue and some more of the roller stamps randomly done...

This one has some old book pages, music pages, the postage sticker that came on a parcel that morning and a doilly...then some blue paint with yellow added thru sequin waste and bubble wrap with a bit of blue reverse sequin waste thrown in for good measure and some more random stamping...I love the way the whole stamp doesn't show up because canvas pushes down when you stamp being a softer surface if that makes sense???

This I think is my favourite..I scoured every charity shop in Inverurie looking for old dressmaking patterns to no avail so ended up buy one from the sewing shop...I covered pretty much the whole canvas and left all the wrinkles and then splodged green and blue paint all over, then more sequin waste and stencils...I love this one!!

This one has patterned papers and a piece of one of the girls old t-shirts on the bottom left all glued on using Mod Podge, then stencilled and stamped and I have even added some Glittered Mod Podge which you can't see in the picture but looks great IRL...(I only have a point and shoot camera and even if I did have really good one I wouldn't know how to use it...lol..)The colours are also way more vibrant IRL...I added some flowers which I just used my finger and some paint to do circles and then doodled round with a pen but I did that after taking the pics...

and last of all is this one...the patterns on here are the waste ink from the reverse of the stencils (wast not want not!!)...some of it pooled so I blew on it really hard to spread it..I like it as its wee and dinky - only 4" x 4" and the stamp in the corner is one of my all time favourites....

That's me for today, once I have cleaned the floors and had my shower (been for a 6 mile walk this morning) I was hoping to get at least one girl done but I won't have time now before school so will have to wait til after kids are in bed...